Multifunctional non-woven fabrics of interfused graphene fibres.

ABSTRACT: Carbon-based fibres hold promise for preparing multifunctional fabrics with electrical conductivity, thermal conductivity, permeability, flexibility and lightweight. However, these fabrics are of limited performance mainly because of the weak interaction between fibres. Here we report non-woven graphene fibre fabrics composed of randomly oriented and interfused graphene fibres with strong interfibre bonding. The all-graphene fabrics obtained through a wet-fusing assembly approach are porous and lightweight, showing high in-plane electrical conductivity up to ∼2.8 × 10⁴S m^-1 and prominent thermal conductivity of ∼301.5 W m^-1K^-1. Given the low density (0.22 g cm^-3), their specific electrical and thermal conductivities set new records f

SUBMITTER: Li Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5141476 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature